[1] "Good Times" was serviced to American adult radio on June 26, 2017 through Fueled by Ramen as the second and final official single from Last Young Renegade.

[2] "Good Times" was the first song written for the album, being composed shortly after the April 2015 release of their previous record, Future Hearts.

"[4] Guitarist Jack Barakat called "Good Times" the "best song" Gaskarth has "ever written,"[1] while drummer Rian Dawson remembers "being so excited about the new album because we were off to a great start," with the track.

[6] Neil Z. Yeung of AllMusic called the song "peppy" and compared it favorably to the work of contemporaries The All-American Rejects and Plain White T's.

"[9] In a similar vein, Sophie Trenear of The Edge wrote that "Good Times" and album track "Ground Control" both "offer something of a wave of crassly-forged nostalgia set to the beat of something resembling accessible.